Upon Steve's suggestion, I enabled *nodumpstack=1 in the PXE config for the Plan 9 in QEMU. The result follows:
... password: ! time... panic: boot process died: sys: demand load I/O error accessing /386/init: mount rpc error panic: boot process died: sys: demand load I/O error accessing /386/init: mount rpc error dumpstack disabled cpu0: exiting So, could it be that there are problems doing IL through QEMU? There shouldn't be, as the pcap device sends directly through the interface... so far as I can tell. Input welcome. Thanks, ak